Would you get charged for murder if you killed and ate your friend for survival in the wilderness?

Could you get convicted? What if you kept them alive and only ate their arm/leg?Would you get charged for murder if you killed and ate your friend for survival in the wilderness?
This actually went to court in the UK a long time ago (the case was called "R v Dudley and Stevens"). The accused had been shipwrecked and ate their cabin boy to survive.



They were still convicted because the argument that their actions were necessary for their survival implied that their life was somehow more important than the cabin boy, which the law wasn't going to allow (this is true in most other places). They were convicted of murder, but only served six months.
Necessity could be a defense for eating a CORPSE, but not for the actual killing.

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Would you get charged for murder if you killed and ate your friend for survival in the wilderness?
Yes you would be charged with murder. You can justify killing someone else to save yourself if they aren't the reason you are in danger. (And I mean directly attacking you.)

If just eating part of them, you would still be charged with assault, battery, maiming. And you would be sued as well. And you would be charged with cannibalism. How do you think you would not be charged?

If they died and then you ate them, it might be different.

I suggest you take a class in wilderness survival so it wont' come to that.
Well,it would be different if they were already dead.the pilgrim did eat other people and dig them out of their grave and eat them.so it might be murder if you killed them and you would like need permission or something to just eat a body part from them.or it would be like abuse.
That's a real good question! I don't know, if that was ever a real case than it would definitely be very controversial!

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